I think for one thing it's important that this be led by Global Affairs. GAC has very few resources on the ground but ultimately, in terms of civil military relations, we want to make sure there is a coherent strategy. One of my concerns going to Latvia is that there isn't a strategy. We have an ambassador. We have a military commandant. We need to get people working together much more effectively on this. We're essentially changing the Ukrainian armed forces from a Russian force structure and officer structure to a western NATO-type structure. We're trying to do this in a very short period of time. We have lots of experience from eastern and central Europe but you observe a function that shows there is not as much buy-in as we would like, and I think we can provide more incentives for the Ukrainian armed forces' security and bureaucracy to buy into that by tying some of our support to those changes.
On October 18th, 2017. See this statement in context.